HorribleFixer
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Hello,
I have been looking for a while and cannot find anything to help me thus far on quite a few different sites so I made an account and I am hoping I can learn some stuff on here.
I am looking to run some wire in my house but it is not going as planned. I tried working on it for a good hour tonight but got frustrated and put it all back together after realizing it will not work the way it is set up thus far. I am looking to run cables from my living room through the walls into the bedrooms of my house. I took off the coax cable cover(for the old tv cable) and tried to makeshift snake the new wire along the old wire through the wall to where I could at least reach it downstairs in the half finished basement. It was not working so I investigated further.
I then went ahead and took out the electrical box from the wall and fit my hand through the hole and traced the wire to the nearest vertical stud in the wall only to find out that the hole in the stud is first off, quite small, and second off, angled through the stud at approx 45 degrees and not a straight hole through the stud. There is no way that another wire could fit through the stud hole, especially not the 2 wires that I was looking to put through it. I could also not feel another hole made in the stud at all.
Now, onto the questions. How would I go about doing what I need to, to run the wires through the wall and into the floor along the path or near the path that the previous cable runs? I am guessing that I would have to break away 5 feet x 5 feet of drywall roughly, drill new stud holes and hope that they run through the floor there, then run them through the floor back to the bedrooms and up through the floor there into the wall through the outlets I am going to use in the bedrooms?
I am just starting to get into home improvement and DIY stuff. I have never done drywall but I am happy to learn whatever I can. I would assume, once I break away the drywall, I will not be able to reuse it and would have to get a new piece, size it, use drywall tape and mud to put it back into place, screw it into the studs deep enough that no screwheads are sticking out, sand it all out, then paint it all?
If there is an easier way to go about doing it I am really looking for that route but it doesn't seem likely. I was searching downstairs and saw that mainly, all of the stud holes are made to fit the wires that were previously run in the house. It is almost like no one had a hole saw and just used a big enough drill bit to run the wire/wires they needed and no bigger.
Thanks for the help.
I have been looking for a while and cannot find anything to help me thus far on quite a few different sites so I made an account and I am hoping I can learn some stuff on here.
I am looking to run some wire in my house but it is not going as planned. I tried working on it for a good hour tonight but got frustrated and put it all back together after realizing it will not work the way it is set up thus far. I am looking to run cables from my living room through the walls into the bedrooms of my house. I took off the coax cable cover(for the old tv cable) and tried to makeshift snake the new wire along the old wire through the wall to where I could at least reach it downstairs in the half finished basement. It was not working so I investigated further.
I then went ahead and took out the electrical box from the wall and fit my hand through the hole and traced the wire to the nearest vertical stud in the wall only to find out that the hole in the stud is first off, quite small, and second off, angled through the stud at approx 45 degrees and not a straight hole through the stud. There is no way that another wire could fit through the stud hole, especially not the 2 wires that I was looking to put through it. I could also not feel another hole made in the stud at all.
Now, onto the questions. How would I go about doing what I need to, to run the wires through the wall and into the floor along the path or near the path that the previous cable runs? I am guessing that I would have to break away 5 feet x 5 feet of drywall roughly, drill new stud holes and hope that they run through the floor there, then run them through the floor back to the bedrooms and up through the floor there into the wall through the outlets I am going to use in the bedrooms?
I am just starting to get into home improvement and DIY stuff. I have never done drywall but I am happy to learn whatever I can. I would assume, once I break away the drywall, I will not be able to reuse it and would have to get a new piece, size it, use drywall tape and mud to put it back into place, screw it into the studs deep enough that no screwheads are sticking out, sand it all out, then paint it all?
If there is an easier way to go about doing it I am really looking for that route but it doesn't seem likely. I was searching downstairs and saw that mainly, all of the stud holes are made to fit the wires that were previously run in the house. It is almost like no one had a hole saw and just used a big enough drill bit to run the wire/wires they needed and no bigger.
Thanks for the help.